Remove error "Not enough space on the disk"

[igobythisname]

Sorry for the inconvenience; I searched the forum last night and this morning before deciding to post this, haven't really seen anyone post this yet..

I have 5 drives in a Sabrent 5 bay usb c enclosure that I created my drivepool with: 2x 10tb, 2x 12tb, 1x 14tb;

i want to remove 2x 10tb and install new 2x 18tb;

i successfully removed 1x10tb, it didn't take much time, i had the middle of 4 boxes checked on the remove options, and I installed 1 18tb;

now it's time to remove the 2nd 10tb, and it's been a weeks long struggle for me....

it took like 36hrs and i got an error-"There is not enough space on the disk" ...how? i just installed an 18tb and i see the pool has barely put like 1/10 of data on it;

then i thought, i have 2x4tb drives in my tower (not apart of any pool), and stablebit scanner has been telling me they're failing; i'll remove them, install the 2x 10tb i trying to remove from the enclosure; i successfully removed the 1x 10tb from the pool, i'll just pull the 2nd 10tb and put both in my tower and add them back to the pool; tried that and my computer only reads the 1 i successfully removed, the 2nd 10tb is not showing up (i did read from my prior search that this is because it's in read only mode..?); i thought my computer would read the 2nd 10tb, and that drivepool will identify it and carry on like it's in the pool (all i did was take it out of my enclosure and put it in my tower).

so now i put the (error'd)10tb back in my enclosure, i added the 1 (removed)10tb into my tower, added it to the pool, so fingers crossed it won't tell me there is not enough space on the disk... I'm at 85.7% on the removal as of writing this.

?-did i go about this correctly? (i know)i have been impatient to let it duplicate/rebalance while i'm trying to complete my drives swap

?-why did it give me the not enough space error when i added a new 18tb?

?-why does the 2nd 10tb only read in my Sabrent enclosure but not when I install it in my tower?

Thanks in advance!

[Shane]

"?-did i go about this correctly? (i know)i have been impatient to let it duplicate/rebalance while i'm trying to complete my drives swap"

"?-why did it give me the not enough space error when i added a new 18tb?"

I might guess that if you had "duplicate files later" checked then it may not have had time to do that after the first 10tb was removed and before the second 10tb was removed, so it had to duplicate 2x10tb when at that point it only had 1x18 to go to? And/or did you have any File Placement rules that might've interfered? Only other thing I can think of is something interrupting the enclosure and DrivePool thought that meant not enough space.

"?-why does the 2nd 10tb only read in my Sabrent enclosure but not when I install it in my tower?"

No idea; DrivePool shouldn't have any problem with a poolpart drive being moved to a different slot (assuming DP was shut down before moving it and started up after moving it). When you say it didn't show up, do you mean "it didn't show up in DrivePool" or do you mean "it didn't show up at all, e.g. not in Windows Disk Management"? Because the latter would indicate a non-DP problem.

[igobythisname]

2 hours ago, Shane said:

"?-did i go about this correctly? (i know)i have been impatient to let it duplicate/rebalance while i'm trying to complete my drives swap"

"?-why did it give me the not enough space error when i added a new 18tb?"

I might guess that if you had "duplicate files later" checked then it may not have had time to do that after the first 10tb was removed and before the second 10tb was removed, so it had to duplicate 2x10tb when at that point it only had 1x18 to go to? And/or did you have any File Placement rules that might've interfered? Only other thing I can think of is something interrupting the enclosure and DrivePool thought that meant not enough space.

"?-why does the 2nd 10tb only read in my Sabrent enclosure but not when I install it in my tower?"

No idea; DrivePool shouldn't have any problem with a poolpart drive being moved to a different slot (assuming DP was shut down before moving it and started up after moving it). When you say it didn't show up, do you mean "it didn't show up in DrivePool" or do you mean "it didn't show up at all, e.g. not in Windows Disk Management"? Because the latter would indicate a non-DP problem.

i see what you mean about the 2x10tb only have 1x18tb to go to.. the 2nd 10tb successfully removed, yay!

as for the drive not showing up in my tower-it was not showing up in BIOS or Disk Management; turns out it was the 3.3v pin on a shucked WD white label that was the issue.. i covered up the power pin with tape and all is well now. thank you so much for your response.

now i'm in the process of removing the 18tbs and 10tbs and reformatting them, so i can increase the allocation unit size from 4KB to 64KB